how do you pronounce 'tuple'?
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From: Paddy on 14 Feb 2006 03:06 (dupple, supple, zupple) = (2,1,0) # :-)
From: Paddy on 14 Feb 2006 03:11 Hmm, I've found a term for a large tuple, a muckle: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3Amuckle&btnG=Search&meta= Definitions of muckle on the Web: * batch: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - Pad
From: Alan Kennedy on 14 Feb 2006 04:08 [Terry Hancock] > So what's a 1-element tuple, anyway? A "mople"? "monople"? > It does seem like this lopsided pythonic creature (1,) ought > to have a name to reflect its ugly, newbie-unfriendly > nature. It's a "trip-you-uple", which you can pronounce anyway you like ;-) -- alan kennedy ------------------------------------------------------ email alan: http://xhaus.com/contact/alan
From: Erik Max Francis on 14 Feb 2006 04:31 Alan Kennedy wrote: > [Terry Hancock] >> So what's a 1-element tuple, anyway? A "mople"? "monople"? >> It does seem like this lopsided pythonic creature (1,) ought >> to have a name to reflect its ugly, newbie-unfriendly >> nature. > > It's a "trip-you-uple", which you can pronounce anyway you like ;-) All I hear there is "triple you up," which is good if you're in a poker tournament, which I suppose tells you where my mind has been lately. -- Erik Max Francis && max(a)alcyone.com && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. -- Thomas Paine
From: Christoph Zwerschke on 14 Feb 2006 07:29
nnorwitz(a)gmail.com schrieb: > Then we went to hear Guido speak about Python 2.2 at a ZPUG meeting in > Washington, DC. When he said toople I almost fell out of my chair > laughing, particularly because the people who taught me to say it the > "right" way were with me. When I looked over, they just hung their > head in shame. "Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch." ;-) (or German) -- Christoph |